McAllister’s woe as bout is called off

I thought we started the game really well and had a couple of good chances.

Big Ash Taylor should do better with the second one, not the one he hit off the bar.

He did well there but maybe, although Bain made the save and that’s all you can ask in that situation, but there is still a lot of the goal to hit.

I thought we were all right early in the game.

For us to play at 90 minutes at that intensity, man-for-man can be difficult.

I thought Celtic got a bit of good fortune with the goal.

Obviously Edouard’s shot took a deflection and I thought we lost a wee bit of confidence for 15 minutes after that.

We never got the same press on as we did have initially.

Welsh and Brown had most of the touches in the Celtic team rather than Edouard, Klimala and Christie.

I actually don’t think our goalkeeper Joe Lewis has had anything to do other than pick the ball out of the net in the first half. In the second half and towards the end of the first half we were man-for-man and totally committed to that and I do think that Celtic never got going.

They had a couple of chances on the break with McGregor and Edouard.

But in the last two performances against them I felt we were pinning them in their own half.

It is not even that first contact on set-plays, it is the next phase. It is for somebody to go and gamble and get across people.

I’m disappointed because I thought the performance, like the other night, was deserving of something from the game.

The last six games at Celtic Park I think we have lost 1-0 three times, drew 0-0, lost 2-1 and won 1-0, very tight matches.

We were just wanting to be the team that came out on the other side of a tight match.

We have had enough chances to make exactly that happen and we haven’t.